On 2025-04-03, Neel Chakraborty <neelroboinfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:20:41AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2025-04-03, Neel Chakraborty <neelroboinfo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, hope you're having a good day. >> > >> > I am trying to understand how does pkg_info -f >> > show the dependencies of a certain package? >> >> It just looks at the +CONTENTS file, either in a package from a mirror, >> or from /var/db/pkg/(pkgname)/+CONTENTS >> >> Any dependencies in there are recorded when the package was built >> > So, it downloads the package from a mirror,extracts it > and then looks at the CONTENTS file?
It only fetches enough to look at +CONTENTS (and checks the signature before using it), doesn't need to fetch the full package. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
